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J9 Secretariat Permanent Joint Headquarters (United Kingdom) Northwood Headquarters Sandy Lane NORTHWOOD Middlesex HA6 3HP Email: UKStratCom-PJHQ-J9- [email protected] Ref: FOI2020-12599 11th December 2020 Mr Justin Zacchi request-706393- [email protected] Dear Mr Zacchi, Thank you for your email of 16 November which requested the following information: “Could you advise which units (since Op Toral started) have deployed on operations, and what time-frame. I have not been able to find any information on this, but if there are other links available that would be grateful also!” Your correspondence has been treated as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). A search for the information has now been completed within the Ministry of Defence, and we can confirm that the information in scope of your request is held. Please find below list of the formed unit battlegroups that have deployed on Operation TORAL since Feb 15: Dates Unit(s) 16 Feb 2015 – 18 Aug 2015 1st Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment (1 R ANGLIAN) 18 Aug 2015 – 17 Apr 2016 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (2 SCOTS) 17 Apr 2016 – 10 Dec 2016 2nd Battalion, The Royal Gurkha Rifles (2 RGR) 10 Dec 2016 – 12 Aug 2017 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment (1 R IRISH) 12 Aug 2017 – 11 Apr 2018 2nd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment (2 YORKS) 11 Apr 2018 – 14 Nov 2018 1st Battalion, Welsh Guards (1 WG) 14 Nov 2018 – 23 March 1st Battalion, the Royal Anglian Regiment (1 R ANGLIAN) 2019 1st Battalion, the Royal Gurkha Rifles (1 RGR) 23 Mar 2019 – 8 Nov 2019 1st Battalion, The Rifles (1 RIFLES) 8 Nov 2019 - 9 May 2020 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) 2nd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment (2 YORKS) 9 May 2020 - 31 Oct 2020 4th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (4 SCOTS) 2nd Battalion, The Rifles (2 RIFLES) 31 Oct 2020 - present 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (2 SCOTS) 1st Battalion, the Royal Anglian Regiment (1 R ANGLIAN) Please note that the above list does not include supporting elements or individual augmentees from the three Services, such as personnel who have been assigned to specific Staff Officer roles in HQ Resolute Support Mission. If you are not satisfied with this response or you wish to complain about any aspect of the handling of your request, then you should contact this office in the first instance at the address above. If informal resolution is not possible and you are still dissatisfied then you may apply for an independent internal review by contacting the Information Rights Compliance team, Ground Floor, MOD Main Building, Whitehall, SW1A 2HB (e-mail CIOFOI- [email protected]). Please note that any request for an internal review must be made within 40 working days of the date on which the attempt to reach informal resolution has come to an end. If you remain dissatisfied following an internal review, you may take your complaint to the Information Commissioner under the provisions of Section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act. Please note that the Information Commissioner will not normally investigate your case until the MOD internal review process has been completed. Further details of the role and powers of the Information Commissioner can be found on the Commissioner's website, http://www.ico.org.uk. Yours sincerely, PJHQ J9 FOI Secretariat .

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